I could get rid of it and moderate comments as they come in, but that's a giant pain in the arse and heaven for bid I can't check the blog for a couple of days, the comments would just be sitting there and slowing down the conversation.

The other alternative is to allow only registered users to comment but that would drive more people away than the captcha.

I've found that eliminating captcha and only allowing registered google users has totally cut down spam both those needing moderated and those not. And my readership hasn't dropped any. Okay here I go...I hope I get it right the first time.

Another Blogger user was complaining about the same thing in the last few weeks. Not sure it has anything to do with your ranking and more to do with Blogger. He doesn't use Captcha either but is considering turning it on too.

Self hosted WordPress site, comes with a plugin spam blocker called Akismet. Over a hundred a day spam comments and nothing gets through. I just have to remember to empty the trash.

Local fishing forums taught me a long, long time ago to completely control my content. Trust no one when it comes to that.

Page rank (PR) is an algorithm that Google uses to place "importance" on world wide web sites using a scale of 1 through 10 (10 being hte most important, 1 being the least). Simply stated, the higher the page rank, the higher your page shows in Google searches. So a PR10 page will generally come up in the first couple of lines on a Google search and a PR1 would likely be multiple pages back.

Here is a link to a much more detailed analysis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

I checked out the Askimet thing...I was hoping it would work for blogger, but it doesn't. Who knows, maybe I'll get a hair up my butt one day to switch over to Wordpress but in general I like the layout I have right now and really don't want to change it.

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